The problem with intermittency of wind and solar energy is so obvious that you wonder why is has taken the Prime Minister this long to work out that we are going to carry on needing gas-fired power stations to fill in the gaps. In the case of solar energy this is, of course, every evening.
Rishi Sunak is quite right that Labour’s plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 (and apparently save us oodles of money off our bills in the process) is a ‘fantasy approach’. The trouble is, the government’s own approach isn’t a whole lot better.
If we are going to have a grid based on wind and solar, gas is pretty much essential
In spite of today’s announcement about new gas-fired power stations, the target of decarbonising the grid by 2035 (i.e. in 11 years’ time rather than 6 years’ time, as Labour proposes) seems to remain in place. In
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